I've started to realize that people I introduce myself to as Eleanor kinda treat me like a stodgy old lady. I have generally used Eleanor professionally and with medical professionals because it's my legal name, but recently I've been experimenting with just saying Ellie a
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And like, I think in my case it boils down to Eleanor not having been a common name since Roosevelt was alive, but Ellie both being a nickname for the much more common Ellen and a common Gen Z name by itself.
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The contexts where I use my names are... pretty disjoint tbf
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Also, weirdly, my legal name is actually pretty hard to abbreviate or vary without turning it into completely different names
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There has never been a good nickname for Karna :/
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I can't imagine introducing myself as Em. In the system, Callie is much more approachable than Calaveras.
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Sadly, neither of my names really has a diminutive form. I suppose if my dad's tradition held I'd go by Bram, but
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I stopped using my middle name because people I’d just met kept calling me Alex
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“Only my dad gets to call me ‘Cy’” at least shuts them down now
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I've just gone by Ollie for so long that I honestly couldn't say. The only person who calls me Oliver is the chemist when I pick up my prescription.
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